Necktie shield and fastener.



z for securing the shield in place.

UNITED STATES;

Patented September 22, 1903.

FRANK-LAMBION, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

NECKITIVE SHIELD AND FASTEN'ER.

SPEGIFIGATIONLforming part of Letters Patent No. 739,428, dated September 22, 1903;

Application filed June 26,1903. Serial No. 163,255. (No model.) I

5 State of New York, have invented an Im proved Necktie Shield and Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved shield and necktie-fastener upon which any style of scarf or tie commonly worn by men may be formed from suitable goods,

such shield and scarf being adapted to be held in place by the collar-button.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the shield. Fig. 2 is an end View. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and .6 show a method of tyinga bow-tie with this shield. Fig. 7shows a ring-tie, and Fig. 8 shows a four-in-hand tie.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the invention consists of a shield, preferably of sheet metal,

having rounded ends and curved upper and lower edges. A buttonholeframe 6 of the same piece of metal as the shield is turned up behind the shield, as shown, to provide means In the center of the shield P, I form a longitudinal slot 1, on opposite sides of which I form slanting slots 2 2, converging toward the bottom of the shield. To form a bow-tie, I first pass both ends of a long narrow piece of material M through the slot 1, so as to form a loop Z in front of the shield, as shown in Fig. 3. The free ends ofsuch tie I then loop up over the rounded ends of the shield, as shown to 3 5 the right of Fig. 4, passing the ends from the back to the front through the openings 2 2, as shown in Fig. 5. The two free ends ff can then be passed through the loop Z, as shown in Fig. 6, to form the tie.

In Fig. 7 I show a ring-tie. The goods are first suitably draped, so as to cover the shield, and the free ends f f brought over the upper edges through a ring B. As the slot 1 is di rectly behind the ring, the inner part of the ring can pass through it and be conveniently held thereby. 3 g

In Fig. 8 I have shown a fourin-hand tie. This and the foregoing two examples are but some of the many forms that can be tied on the shield of my invention.

, I claim as my invention- 1. A shield and necktie-fastener, comprising a shield having curved upper and lower edges, a central longitudinal slot, with slanting slots on opposite sides of the central slot and converging toward the bottom of the shield.

2. A shield composed of one piece of metal, comprising a plate having rounded ends and curved upper and lower edges, a longitudinal slot in the center of said plate, a slanting slot on each side of said longitudinal slot, on lines converging toward the bottom of the shield and a buttonhole-frame part turned backward 1y from the lower part of the shield, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK LAMBION. Witnesses: l

EDNA W, COLLINS, F. WARREN WRIGHT. 

